[trivia] Quiz Night @ The HavenHave
a kilt in the closet? Will "Freedom!" be the last thing you say before
you die? Tonight, The Haven in JP kicks off Tartan Week with Scottish
Quiz night hosted by Girls Pint Out. Check the website out for other Scots-themed events happening this week!

TUESDAY 4.5

[social] Boston Sci-Fi/Fantasy April Meet Up @ The Tavern in Central SquareKeywords
for this meetup: Stargate, Doctor Who, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica,
Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D Encounters, and Meeting New People. Need
we say more? The group meets on the first Tuesday of every month at The
Tavern in the Square at Central (not at Porter!) around 6:30pm! Free.

[charity] Night of 1,000 Stories @ The Court HouseGot
$150 or more to donate to charity? Come down to the Courthouse and get
bidding with Dennis Lehane and Jeff Kinney to raise money for 826
Boston's free youth writing programs for Boston Public School students!
among the night's offerings: a unique literary auction at which you can
bid on a character with your name to turn up in Dennis Lehane's next
novel. 6-8pm.

[music] Chiptune 13 @ Middle East UpstairsBoston8Bit
presents music inspired by and created with video games. Listen for
Amiga sound effects played on Nintendo DS and expect lots of dancing!
(And inexplicable space helmets.) $10. Doors at 8pm.

[vicarious embarrassment] Mortified Boston @ OberonAh, yes. Already it's time for another installment of Mortified,
where your embarrassing personal detritus becomes comedy gold. Diaries
will be read, old demo tapes will be played, and guts will be busted at
Oberon. $15. 8pm.

[bots] National Robotics Week @ Museum of ScienceSecond
annual exhibition on how robots affect society! A week of many
automaton-y delights. The MoS is promising: Mars personal exploration
rovers! Life-saving packbots! Robot Block Party! We are so damn excited.

[gamejam] Cardboard Jam @ MITBoston Game Jam is teaming up with GAMBIT, the Singapore-MIT game development lab (recently spotted doing really cool things at PAX East),
to host a lower-tech creative space. What you'll need: Cardboard;
paper; pencils; a deep and abiding love of gaming. Free. April 9-10: 9am
Saturday to 6pm Sunday.

[throwback] SPACE OPERA @ The Peabody SchoolThe
North Cambridge Family Opera Company presents Space Opera, a tale of
farmboys, droids, an empire, and a rebellion. Two performances on
Saturday (2pm, 7pm) and Sunday (1pm, 5:30pm), including one with pizza.
Free ($10 sugg. donation).

SUNDAY 4.10

[obsolescence] FAX's Last Day @ Carpenter Center, HarvardMaking
art out of the most frustrating machine ever invented? Come see the
final day of this exhibit, which asks artists to re-conceptualize the
FAX machine as a thinking and creative tool.